Maddox Batson is 15, doesn’t have a driver’s license, and is somehow getting his first passport so he can head out on a world tour. In this episode, he talks about bringing his entire family on the road, growing up on bluegrass with a mandolin-master dad, and how being homeschooled actually fits with a life of airports, soundchecks, and hotel rooms. He and Bobby get into what a “normal day” looks like for him, why he begged to get off the screen and onto real stages, and how it feels now to hear crowds singing every word back. Maddox also opens up about the hobbies that keep him grounded such as collecting watches, playing golf, hunting and whether he still feels like a kid when most of his friends are just starting high school. He shares his love for artists like John Mayer, Keith Whitley, George Jones, and Ed Sheeran, his “pinch me” Opry moment, and the story of averaging 35 points a game in basketball before a knee injury changed everything. Plus, there’s a funny clip about being accused of being a ball hog, some “uncountry” talk, and what it’s like playing shows in Nashville and beyond at 15 years old.
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Speaker 1 (00:06):
I'm twelve years old, averaging thirty five boys a game,
and I'm diming the ball off and they're not doing
nothing with it.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Much love to anyone on my team. I love you, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to episode five point fifty nine with Maddox Batson.
I think you said it best. I think you said
this is our first guest who did not have a
driver's license and had to be driven over to the house. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
They couldn't drive them to the interview, and.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Not because it expired, but because they're just not old
enough to have a driver's license. Yeah, he's fifteen, and
so I get there are always teen stars, but you
just don't expect because Maddick is a cool He's a
cool fifteen year old. Yeah, you just don't expect it
to be bluegrass. Could you imagine yourself coming into an
interview at fifteen years old like this, Like how would
(00:52):
you conduct yourself at fifteen?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Like I thought of me at fifteen, I'm like, dude,
I would sound like an idiot. Yeah, I don't know.
I guess I didn't think about it like that. My
whole thing was he's playing such traditional old school music
like it is it's a bluegrass kid that comes in
and we talk about way later on, like how he
loved playing basketball and how good he was.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That was on Mike right.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, so like he's just a regular kid who played bluegrass.
But you're right, he's fifteen years old. His dad came
with him, but his dad didn't come with him just
because he's his dad. His dad's like when he blew
up online, he was already playing shows, but when he
blew up online, his dad was playing a lot of
stuff with him because his dad's an instrumentalist, a musician.
So yeah, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Good kid.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I feel like he's a good kid. Now what they
have to do is make sure he stays a good kid. Yeah,
once you get about seventeen to twenty, those are the
dicey years.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Loved it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Check out Maddoxbatson dot com for dates and tickets. He
just announced a new world tour. He's going all over
the place. He's got some Christmas songs out, a couple
of covers last Christmas, and I'll be home for Christmas.
But we talked about where is he from Nashville or Alabama?
Because he kind of bounced back and forth, but he's a.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Blue Grays kid. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I hope you like it here. He is my new friend,
but only when other adults are around. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Maddox Batson. The only time he was going over there,
that's right, that's right, it's only coming over his dad's
with Tom. Yes, Maddox, good to see buddy, got to
see you. I know, last time we tried to do this,
I think I was I had the flu or something.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, so we were gonna try to do it like
before my tour, and then you know, just had a
conflict with your flu and my tour.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So now it's now.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I saw that speaking of your tour, I saw like
an announcement maybe this morning. I think I read it
on my show, like you're doing like a worldwide tour
first ever.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, that's cup fun.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, dude, I've never been over the pond. I was
literally before this. Maybe my dad were on the way
to you know, go get my passport photo.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You don't have it yet, No, I do not.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't have my license. I have zero identification of
any sort any kind. So yeah, I was on the
way to get that, and then you know, realized we
didn't have enough time.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So wit, So you didn't take the picture.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, we didn't get to.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I was taking a left and then I was like,
I probably don't have enough time, so popped.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Alright, think about a passport picture.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
M M.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
It always sucks.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Really, Yeah, that's not good because you got to.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Like stand at like a against a white wall.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You're not a lot of smile.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Or you look like you're about to murder someone. We're
about to commit a crime or something.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Gee, that's terrible. I'm not excited for it. Now where
excited to go? Honestly? I heard we're going to Dublin,
aren't we.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, Ireland and just like that type of stuff over
there is just going to be super cool. Like I've
always wanted to just you know, just go to Europe
in general and just you know, scope it out. So
I'm a huge golfer as well, So if we get
to go play like Saint Andrew's or something, that would
be kind of cool as well.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I don't know if we'll have time, but.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's what you make time for exactly. I would you
get to go to Dublin every week exactly? I mean
I'm not, you know, over there all the time. So
if I have like even like a few hours off.
I loved you know, catch a little catch a little
ride to mister old Saint Andrews. That'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Are you playing starting to be winter now? But what
are you playing a lot of golf?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Oh? All the time?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Like I think we played twenty one rounds of golf
while I was on tour for two months.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And that's that's kind of unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I mean, technically it's not unhealthy because you're getting you know,
fit doing it.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Kind of I don't know by golf.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, if you're carding it, I don't know how fit
you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, walk card, I definitely cart. Yeah, I'm not on
a show to do too exactly. I gotta stay rested
kind of. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
What's difficult is because we'd go play golf. You know,
I do stand up and we play golf, but the
sun would like wear me down really yeah, like you're
out in the sun, one of those big hats.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Well, just you just have.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
To like, you know, you'd play eighteen and you like,
I'm not affected at all, but you get to the
venue to.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Be tired my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, well that's young.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, that's my perks that I'm just about to say,
you know, perk being fifteen years old is you know,
the sun doesn't wear me down too bad, you know so,
I think for being as bad as a golfer as
I am, the twenty rounds didn't really help me become
a better golfer, but it definitely helped me, like take
my mind off of some things, because you know, while
you're on tour, you can, you know, kind of get
in your head about all kinds of different stuff and
just having those few hours to yourself or with a
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few buddies to just you know, forget about everything. But
the next shot that you're taking, and it helps more
than people know for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Your family come out on tour with you.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh, absolutely full family, mom, dad, sister, and they're all
working with me too, which is super fun. Like my dad,
you know who works with me, and my sister works
with me, and my cousin. My mom, I mean she
kind of just chills.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'd rather hurt chill because I mean she deserves it.
She raised me so.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But he wants to know he's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He's ready to go.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Mom's like, I'll take a I'll take a step back,
and you know, I'll let her have that for sure.
But like my cousin as well, so they all kind
of we all kind of work hand in hand, which
is super cool. And they're the only people on the
planet that'll never expect anything from me other than just maddics.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So that's why I love him the most.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, I think people if they didn't know your background
would be surprised that you have such a bluegrass history.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Absolutely, I mean just with him, and you know, just
like my entire come up, I was I was kind
of born into it. Like he was a mandolin national
champion when he was like twelve, my dad you were Yeah, yeah,
he got to play with Bill Monroe on stage and
stuff like that. So yeah, he's he's a legend. Unfortunately,
being left handed, I play everything every instrument right handed,
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and it's kind of awkward. I'm not very fast picker,
but you know, I try my best. Mandolin such a
cool instrument. But yeah, my entire life I grew I
grew up on bluegrass music, and maybe if I didn't
love it as much as a kid, I'm kind of
like showing an appreciation for it.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
What's the first instrument you got and how old were.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You first instrument I ever started playing, I'd say I
think it was piano.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I was like seven.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
My mom wanted me to start on piano before I
did a stringed instrument, just so I can learn like
music theory and music like her learned how to read music.
She always wanted me to learn how to read music.
And yeah, shout out to Adam King, my piano teacher.
I took lessons for around like four years. Consistency. What's
the word consistently there? It is perfect, you know, fifteen
(06:41):
years old, homeschooled. I can't really say many words, but
you know, piano was definitely number one. And then I
was like ten when I picked up guitar and like
COVID and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, whenever you're learning piano, was it something that you
liked doing even at that age.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
If I'm being completely honest with you, Bobby, absolutely, like
not at all at all. It was a complete like
forced like force. My mom had to force me to
do it. I love to sing, and I love to
sing it like church and like singing growing up, like
with my dad and stuff. But playing the piano and
playing like reading the reading the absolutely not you couldn't,
like you couldn't pay me to do it. But as
(07:18):
I grew older and started appreciating music a little bit
more and appreciating that girls appreciate music and that kind
of stuff, I would, you know, lean into it a
little bit more like, yeah, I can play, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So are you happy now that you have that background
a piano?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Absolutely, because it benefits me so much because like with
my band, I always felt like I didn't know what
I was talking about and then knowing having like right,
not necessarily not knowing what I was talking about, but
like they're so good at what they do and they
know like everything about music theory.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You know, they kind of put me in my place.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But knowing having that little bit of background a piano
makes me understand and that just you know, it's it's
it's very beneficial.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm super glad. Shout out mom, Thanks for shout out mom.
Thank you so much for making me do it against
my will.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Shout outs mom, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Whenever you started playing guitar, were you super anxious to
get started on guitar? Was it like something you were
looking forward to, like you were graduating from piano?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
And then I picked it up and realized my fingers
hurt really bad. I started taking I didn't like, he
plays guitar really well. And you know, I didn't really
have to get like a teacher, quote unquote, like I
had a teacher. But it's kind of you know, it
was like once a month. Maybe it's really not as
good as your dad exactly exactly. And I would just
I would just learn from him and pick stuff up
from him, and he would teach me things, and you know,
(08:30):
my hands would hurt all the time, and I didn't
want to play.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I wanted to play. It was like I wanted to play,
but it hurt so bad. And that's it was. It
was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But once I started building those calluses, I mean I
played it all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Well I played left handed, but I played left handed
really yeah awsome?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So he played this way?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, so I played yeah this, Why do you flip
it if you're left handed?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'll tell you right now. When I picked it up.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
When I picked up the guitar at ten years old,
my dad told me it was like, dude, if you
go to a party, exactly, what are the odds that
left handed guitar is going to be sitting on the
wall and there's a girl you want to umpress. And
I was like, dude, you're so right and so right.
He's so right, you know. And I was like, all right,
I'll thug it out and learn it right handed. I mean,
it's now, I don't think I could switch, Like, I'm
(09:11):
so used to playing it right handed. I truly don't
think I could switch to playing it left handed. It
feels so weird.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
The difficult things about being left handed.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And you'll know this first of all guitars right there's
no there are no other left handed guitars anywhere, and
people are playing songs and like if I didn't, I
don't bring mine.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah I don't have one. Yeah, you don't get to play.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Or I'm like, uh GC, just I'm not telling somebody
what to play.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ball gloves, ball, oh terrible like equipment in any sport
left handed sport.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Like literally, I remember I was.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I played baseball growing up, and that was the worst
because the gloves didn't look as cool like I remember,
like Wilson makes like really colorful like and that was
like the style like and I played outfield and I
was a pitcher and stuff like that and they made
really really colorful, like nice cool gloves for righties, but
for lefties they made nothing, just felders so huge thirteen
(09:59):
inch gloves that my eleven year old hand didn't fit
hit and I was I was mad, but you know,
I finally found me one and I still have it
to this day.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It's like my favorite glove and I use it all
the time, like you're one, It's my one glove.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Colorful left handed gloves.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh it's not colorful, No, it's it's just hand.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
It's basic. But you know, I like it a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And now that I've grown up a little bit, I'm like, yeah,
this kind of looks much better than the pink and
blue and black and you know, the.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
On I feel like and just watching the relationship that
you and your dad have even had just ear here,
absolutely like for you guys to grow up be dad
and son, to also be teacher and student, to also
be like mentor like that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I feel like you guys are still like getting along.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I mean I spend every day with them, you know,
and that's kind of like most kids, like a normal
you know, fifteen year old, you know, you go to
school seven hours, you go to practice after maybe you
do another extracurricular and then you come home and spend
time with your parents, right, But for me, I mean,
I mean I spend every day with them, every day,
every hour, every minute, I mean pretty much, you know,
because I'm on the road all the time, and even
(11:03):
when I'm home, I don't really do much, you know,
I'm more I just like to chill, so I'm with
them a lot. And surprisingly, you know, I mean, of
course we get on each other's nerves, and I mean
that's just the way it's going to be. But you know,
we're very very close relationship and I take a lot
of you know, that's that means a lot to me,
you know, because like having your family close, I mean
is so beneficial, especially in the music industry. Music industry
(11:25):
is such like a cutthroat business and having them that
you know to make great decisions for you and you know,
will help you make those decisions because at fifteen, as
much as I think I know everything, I definitely don't,
so like having.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You never will know everything, no, yea, all these ages
is like I think I got it out, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And you know, even when I'm like you know, close
to being dead and gone, I'll think I'll of everything
and the you know, figure out that there's so much
for stuff that I got to learn, and that's just
the way it is, and that's I mean, we have
a very close relationship and I'm very thankful for it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Sure. What about school? Do you homeschool? Yeah? Homeschool? I
just I had school this morning. What is that?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Like?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
What's homeschool?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So basically it's like two times a week and it's
like lectures for around two hours. So I'm like doubling
down after I got off tour. For on tour, it
was like two times a week, one hour, right, but
now it's two times a week, two hours, and then
I'll have homework throughout the week.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It's relatively easy.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It's just enough to get me by so I can
get by diploma because I don't want to, you know,
be twenty five and be like, man, I kind of
wish I got my diploma. So I just want to,
you know, go ahead and get that over with and
you know, get as many points as I can maybe
go to college when I'm a little bit older as well.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So if you take music out and let's say you
take sports out, Like what do you do?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Like, what does a fifteen year old do? What would
I do? If I didn't like now, Like, what do
you do? No, I don't know what a fifteen year
old does anymore, Dude, what would I What do I do? Dude?
I'm kind of an old guy now.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I spent I hang out with so many old people,
Like I collect watches and I golf, Like that's like
that's my that's my hobbies.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I hunt all the time, you know, I'm a bit
I'm a huge hunter, and I love doing that. And
I kind of just I love I kind of like
I'm starting to appreciate alone time more than I used to.
Like I used to be like and heang, I never
want to be alone because like I just make it.
Then you'll get in your head and you start thinking
too much, Like this is the way I am. And
I've always wanted to have people around me to just
bounce ideas off of and just talk to. You know,
(13:15):
I'm a big talker, so I've always wanted to have
people around. But like, hunting kind of like chills me out.
When I'm out there by myself, I can just you know,
think about the good things and maybe even think about
the bad things.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But yeah, like I said, I'm kind of a kind
of an older guy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was a man, I'm definitely an old fifteen year old.
I mean, I definitely have buddies, and you know, I'll
hang out with them every now and then for sure,
and I'm very thankful for them. They're keeping me young,
you know. But I just hang around so many old
guys that it. You know, I'm doing all kinds of
old stuff too.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So what about watches? How'd you get into watches?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Dude? Like I said, like, I'm hanging like my manager,
he's a huge watch guy.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
My lawyer is a huge watch guy.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
In fact, you have a lawyer. Yeah you're an old man.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah yeah d s yeah yeah my lawyer.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Too many cases.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But yeah, they got me into it, and I just
I like Heller made That's a very big appreciation toward
towards him. I got my dad, what is that, a
yacht Master Master for his birthday, and I'm getting a
day eight like this week. So I'm like, I just
love collecting them. It's just super fun for me and
I just I just I'm a huge John Mayer fan,
and John Mayer is a huge watch guy, and I
(14:23):
kind of like took in both from him, and yeah,
I'm just a just an old soul man.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
John Mayor is my favorite artist.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, he's my favorite artist of all time.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, favorite favorite album.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Probably like the The Edge of Desire album, that's my
favorite song.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I can't remember the name of the album.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I think it was I'm a big like everybody loves
Continuum because it's like the most Like that's like when
he kind of changed his sound a bit, and also
you kind of went from like kid to adult.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Battle Studies is the name of that Thank You came
out on my birthday? Actually, I think it was either
November or thirteenth or December thirteenth, two thousand and nine,
Like literally my date of birth is when that album
came out, which is super cool.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I like Born and Raised and a lot of people
I don't love Born and Raised because it's more of
a Southwestern nype flair, But I really enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
That record from John Mayer.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's a great record.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
What is it about him that makes you love his music?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Dude, He's he's just a sad guy.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You know. I mean, he's it's just like I love
the way he can make the guitar scene. There's not
many artists that can, you know, do that. And I
love to take inspiration from him. I mean, I don't
make many songs like John, but you know, it's it's
still cool to just listen to him. And like when
I'm by myself and you know, I'm on a plane ride,
I'm always listening to him, and it's just he's just
(15:42):
a guy I can kind of like resonate with. He
makes music that it's just I don't know, I just
love listening to it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It just makes me. You know.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He was the first songwriter that I ever heard that
like wrote from my.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Perspective really like ever.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, because again, I've loved music my whole life. It
was hearing John Mayer write songs about the way I felt,
not just writing songs about how he felt, but he
wrote songs and I was like, oh man, that's how
I feel.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Like he was that first songwriter for me.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, so as much as you know he has bangers, yeah,
like his songwriting to me, yeah was super important and
like my musical growth.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, it was truthfully, like like some songs like, like
I was saying, edgrid Desire is my favorite Edgeard Desire
and in Your Atmosphere are my two favorite John songs.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And like, I covered Edgward.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Desire like a year ago, and I was covering it
during my set, and like, I doubt anyone in the
crowd knew what that song was, but I remember playing.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I was playing Brooklyn Bowl.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was playing Brooklyn Bowl a few days after my
birthday last year, sold out show and my aunt was
there and I was playing it and I had, I
mean great song, and no one really knew what the
song was. I was just like, hey, I'm just gonna
play this for you guys, because I truly, I truly
love it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I was doing it for me, you know. I
was doing it for me. I wanted to play it.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And I found out later that it was my aunt's
wedding song, which was kind of It was cool, it
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It was just like a I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Even know it, you know, And then I got off
stage and found that out, and it's just like the
coolest thing. And I think his music just you know,
you can play it throughout very like various occasions, if
that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You can play it anytime.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You know, you can play it you're sad, you can
play it at a house party, you can play it,
you know, at a wedding. You know, you can play
it pretty much anywhere. And I think he's a very versatile,
versatile artist for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
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Speaker 4 (17:44):
Who are your favorite artists?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you were doing Mount Rushmore for artists for wow,
Mount Rushmore, you don't need to be in a format,
it's just.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Okay, who do you love?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
She's a great, great question, John Mayer, for sure.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Uh, Keith Willie, Is that from your dad's influence?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, Dad's influence for sure. And I took influence from
my parents, my grandparents, and my sister. My sister's twelve
years older than me, so I'd get a lot of
musical influence from her. When I was like five, she
was driving, so she would just drive me around all
the time and put on OX so I would listen
to like Justin Bieber and Usher and Chris Brown and
you know, One Direction and all those guys.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
With her.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Number three, i'd have to say George Jones just because
he's I mean a legend.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I mean, I'm not gonna say I listen to him
all the time, but I think, yeah, I love his voice.
He could hit like every octave. You know, it's like
one of the only artists I could do that. And
then I'll give you another like I love. This is
a very underrated pool. If this is a very subjective thing,
Like if you asked me last week, I'd probably have
another four artists. John Mayer is pretty solidified, but like
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these guys are kind of you know, it depends on
the day, but I'd probably say number four is like
Ed Sharon, like like another guy like that, just a
you know, complete curveball from everyone else. But like, I mean,
think about it, if you really think about like Ed
Sharon's songs, Dude, he's he's a legend, and he's got
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like so many bangers and so many just amazing songs
and just amazing songwriter.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And I haven't.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Dude, I wish I know he's making mad bank too,
because he stage the size of this.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's literally just him a loop pedal and a guitar
and you know, an arena or a stadium.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, and yeah, exactly all that money all of it,
literally all of it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No production costs. You've had to learn all about that now,
right like overhead? Oh yeah, dude, it's it's bad. It stinks.
He definitely knowes, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I mean, I try to incorporate my my myself into
the business as much as I can, but you know,
I have to accept the fact that I definitely don't
know everything, you know, kind of like I said earlier,
and I'm learning for sure, And I learned from him,
and I learned from you know, guys on my team
and that kind of stuff on how everything works. So
when I'm eighteen, you know, that's I can. I can
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go out and do this by myself and not get
taken advantage of or anything like that. And that's why
I started at fifteen, you know, I mean because like
of course, when I was you know, first starting to
do this, and you know, I was going to Texas
with my dad and started performing and started picking up
a little bit of attraction on social media and all
this kind of stuff, and people were reaching out. There
was definitely a question, you know, like dang, do we
want to do this? We want to pull him out
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of school? Do we want to do all this? Kind
of stuff. And I think it was my mom that
they were in the bed. They were like talking about it.
My mom was crying, he was probably crying all this
kind of stuff. She turned around, He's like, well, if
we do it now, that we can help him, you know,
because he's going to do it at eighteen anyway. You know,
he's going to do something like this that you know,
when he's a little bit older anyway, And when he's
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older then we can't help him, you know, but we
can help him now. And that's I mean, that was
like pretty much the turning point decision is when they're like,
I guess, yeah, you're right. And I'm super blessed that
she made that decision because I'd be I'd be I'd
be lost. I wouldn't know what to do without these guys,
and you know, I've learned so much from them and
just super thankful for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Talk about your dad and you going to Texas like
that was like once a month.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh dude, not months of what dude.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We were down there probably for a solid year, playing
three four hour sets in the Texas heat.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
How often would you go down I'd say like two
three times a month?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Maybe? Wow, you know, yeah, and we'd make that from
we'd make that drive from you know, Birmingham to like
Dallas Fort Worth, and I would play in front of
ten people who didn't care. You know, It's just me
and him and a guitar, and we thought we were
living it up, you know. And I was playing three
four hour sets opening up for you know who knows, right,
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I mean, actually I do know. I mean some of
my favorite guys. His name's Taylor Branch. He's a really
cool guy, and I got to open up for him
one time. And like Ryder Grimes, he was another mentor
of mine. He was like eighteen years old. I brought
him out on tour with me, you know, and I'm
just super thankful for that, like Texas grassroots country, that
I got to you know, go experience, because I didn't
want to be a guy that's known and I you know,
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got my start behind a screen, you know, And that
was like a huge thing for me and my dad
and just a whole decision as a you know, group
that I wanted to learn how to play live.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I wanted to go, you know, experience what.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It is because quite honestly, that helps more than people know.
And That's why I think performing is one of my
better parts of you know, my artistry is because I
would go play at those four hour sets in one
hundred and ten degree Texas heat and no one cared,
you know, and have to endure, like realize that you
have to put on a show for really people to
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turn ahead. And that was I mean, it was. It
was something that I learned and I'm glad I did.
I wouldn't trade it for anything. And now you know,
I go up on stage and I'm playing in front
of thousands of people each night, who you knowing my
sing every single lyric to every single song I have,
and it's just like I still put on that same
show that I feel was at a winery with fiances
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who were planning their wedding who weren't listening. You know,
it's the same I'm putting on this music exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I know, seriously.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
That was my first show May twenty at twenty twenty
three was my first show, and I was wearing a
Pittsburgh Steelers jersey.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm a Steelers fan, and it was.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
In my hometown, probably like fifteen minutes away from my house,
and I was playing. I was playing an hour I
was playing probably two three hours, probably a three hour gig,
me and my dad, and there's probably you know, twenty
girls there planning their wedding and they didn't care, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And that's fine. You know, I was playing. I was
playing my.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Covers anyway, so I didn't care, you know, And I
wouldn't trade it for nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I'm super glad I did it.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Do you feel like, because you're so young, people think
that you did come from behind a screen first?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh? Absolutely, And that's just like what you're gonna do
about it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You know. There's some people that are just they did
They just have that closed mind and they're gonna think
that no matter what, you know, hater's gonna hate. But
for the people that have an open mind and or
like curious on truly how I got my start is
it wasn't you know. I mean, of course some of
it was, you know, and I would post online and
do all that kind of stuff, and I would go
live with my dad.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But also I was putting in the work.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
A lot of it was a lot, a lot of
hard work, you know, Like I just said, I would
go play live all the time, and I would beg
to go play live because I just love, you know,
making that connection with people, you know, because you can't
do that over a screen. You can't, like, you can't
love somebody over a screen, you can't make a connection
with people over a screen. You can't do many things
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over a screen. But what we can't do in person
is make a connection, you know. And that's I learned that,
and I'm glad I got to carry that over. And yeah,
it's just I did to an extent, but I also
put in a lot of work behind the scenes that
a lot of people that kind of gets like, you know,
overpassed because TikTok was a or social media in general
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was a big part for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, I don't feel like you are a legitimate screen
kid with music, because I do. You're playing a lot
of shows, yes, and not taking anything away from screen kids, yeah,
of course, or screen adults, like it's just another way
to get discovered. Yeah, but there are people that I
know that are now big artists who were discovered on
TikTok that they're really massive artists, absolutely, but they had
to like learn all the live performance stuff after they
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had already popped. And that's an awkward place to be
when there are people watching you and you really don't
know what you're doing, but you're already famous for doing it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Absolutely, And that's why I'm super blessed that I did
it before. You know, I didn't necessarily have that. I mean,
I I'm not gonna say I did it before my
first ever TikTok video, but I definitely did it before
I had like one hundred thousand followers. I was doing
all that kind of stuff with like ten thousand followers maybe,
you know, and I was, you know, I was posting consistently,
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but I wasn't just posting in my house. I was posting,
you know, come out to the show tonight, hear it?
You know the sidekicks for and grow at you know,
the dive bar at Texas where I just got at
thirteen years old. I probably just got you know, free
pool quarters to go for the pool, but I.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Didn't get anything else other than that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
But uh yeah, it's just uh you know, I mean,
I'm thankful for it for sure, because it taught me
a lot of things about, you know, a lot of performing.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
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Bobby Cast.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So you got donything cool like go to New York
or LA.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, yeah, I got I love New York. I like
New York better in LA.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I like LA. I don't hate LA. He doesn't not
he doesn't like LA. I like LA.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I like hanging out there. I like seeing like just
it's just such a different world out there. It's like
a whole other country and it's just super cool. I
like being out there.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Do New York first, Like, what do you like about
New York?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
What do I like about New York. I love the
culture in New York. I love there's if there's culture
in New York. I don't think there's a whole lot
of culture in LA. I mean there's culture, but like
in New York, it's so strong and you can like
see it everywhere. And I felt like I was in
a movie the entire time. You know, I felt like
I was Batman, you know, I was just I seriously,
I was riding around in an uber and I saw
steam coming out of a you know, a drain, and
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I was like, dang, I'm in a movie. You know.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It was awesome. I felt like a Maria Gotham City, Yeah,
god city.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Seriously, and I I dud it was so cool and
you know. I was going around. It's like New York,
you know. I mean they were definitely yelling at me
for doing that, but I was cool. I was like, yes,
please yell at me because I felt like I was.
It was just like the coolest saying and honking yell. Yeah,
please please yell at me, curse please.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You know, I want to. I want to feel the experience.
I like New York. Yeah, New York except when it's cold, really,
and I was.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I was in I was there in May. I was
there in May. I didn't see it when it was cold.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I didn't. You don't want to really. Maybe it's pretty
hot though it's kind of muggy. It was like eighty.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
The word thing about New York is a lot of
people don't have air conditioners there because.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
They don't need it for very long really, so they
don't buy them. Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So why would you buy an air conditioner if you're
only needing it for three or four weeks out of
the year.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Gee. Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
We're weather wise, like La is awesome, but traffic, oh terrible.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Like I feel like I could I could be in
the heart of La and I could drive fifteen minutes,
or I could drive two hours and still feel like
I'm in the city, Like, if that makes sense in
any direction, I could drive thirty minutes south and still dang,
I'm looking at the same building, you know, same with
New York.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
But New Year's cooler because it's New York. Yeah you
can walk.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, I can just walk to New York. No one
really drives in New York anyway. But I mean I
liked LA. I have an appreciation of LA. Amazing music
stuff out there, you know, and I've I've written with
some great people out there, and you know, gotten in
some obsessions. A plus weather, oh A plus absolutely seventy
Sonny and seventy five or sixty five every day.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
F traffic if I'm grading aps weather, okay, F traffic, Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
What do you know about S tire? You ever heard
of S? Here? There's like S above A. It's like, sa,
is this the new grading system?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It's like the how long has this been a thing? So? A?
And then is red S is like above A? S
is like perfect. I don't know about this.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, this is like the new gen grading system. I
would say, is it No, it's probably I don't know.
I've seen it probably ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Okay, so it was like five.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It's S yeah, S, S, A, B, C, D E
F or no no e no e.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You're flipping my brain?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
All right, No the E.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I just I got stuck in the alphabet ways, you know,
a little too young.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Take away the E d F, so S means perfect,
S means perfect, like perfect weather.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Why did they pick the letter S?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Like? What does that even standard? I didn't make the rules.
I'm just a messenger, man, I have so I have
no clue.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Our messages had scrambled my brain.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Superior messages, superior, Yeah, superior boom, Yeah, that's yeah, got it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Okay, So S weather, S weather, F traffic, traffic in
the New York I'm gonna give it a I'm.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Gonna give it a C minus traffic, you know, even
a D.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, I can go with that. I can go with
D traffic, but at least you can places.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, but the walking kind of brings it up, yeah,
a little bit, because there's no I mean, there's walking traffic,
but like you're walking.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I'm gonna say a food in New York. I'm not
gonna go S food. But I'm gonna go a food,
A food, and I had. I'm not gonna say I
have the best food of my entire life in New York.
I don't even think I ate a slice of pizza.
The bagels too much cream cheese. Maybe I'm not New
York enough.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You're not like that. I guess. Sorry, I don't know.
Shame me, please curse me.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Uh but uh, I'd say a food, Yeah, a food,
D traffic and s culture.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, s culture for sure. Where do you claim to
be from?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I claim I claim to be from Nashville, but Birmingham
is like almost the city that kind of built me,
you know, cause like a lot of my years that
were you know, the growing up years, like when I
like like my middle school, I never to the high school,
but like my middle school and like elementary school years
like second to through eighth grade was Birmingham, and then
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first through first or I mean my first year on
the planet through first grade, and then now I have
been Tennessee, so I'd say I'm from Tennessee, but like
Birmingham was, like I grew up in Birmingham. I don't
know how to make that make sense.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah, I know it didn't at all. Okay, yeah, you know,
I'll elaborate, like I got the numbers. I played it out.
It's basically a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, exactly the Nashville We got the national sandwich Nashville
to meat Birmingham and you're back on with the bread.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Perfect. That's I mean, literally a perfect way to put it.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Do you ever meet other fifteen year olds?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And then I'm sure you do, but again, your business
isn't around fifteen year olds?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No, definitely not, but maybe it shows.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And do you feel like you're a lot older than them?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Like young? Like what is your cause? Again?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You seem a lot older and you've you've achieved a
lot older. How do you feel when you're with other
fifteen or sixteen year old.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I try to not when I'm with like my buddies
and stuff, I try to let all of my you know,
business mind just leave, just so I could be a kid.
You know.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Do you have fifteen year old friends here?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yes? Of course, of course, Like I have friends liked
you're talking about golf and watches.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I know, I know, I know true, But I go
golfing with them. You know, I brought them, you know,
the forty year old knowledge has been passing me and
then I'm passing it down to them, you know, that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But I try to let it go, you know, when.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I'm with them, so I don't like I'm not just miserable,
like what are you guys talking about the whole time?
You know, like if I just let it go and
let myself be a kid, I feel like that's.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
When it's more enjoyable. Do they let you be normal? Yes,
of course, of course. You know, Like when I'm around them,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
They treat me just like Maddix, which is that'd be
the biggest blessing. And you know, like I'm a lot
of them. Is my family like a lot like North.
I have like a lot of cousins that I like
to hang out with, like Alex, my my cousin, Alex,
he's the best at it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
He like, I have a lot of yes men.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I have a lot of people around me that'll just
say yes Maddix you know, all the time, which is great.
But Alex is the guy that'll be like, no, what
are you talking about? I'll beat you up like that
type of guy.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
He's just true, exactly true, true Southern cousin. I'm super
thankful for him because he keeps me grounded, and that's
something that you really, really really need. And that's why
I like hanging out with my buddies, because they don't
treat me like Maddox Fast and the Entity. They kind
of just treat me just like their buddy Maddix, which
is cool with me.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Give me a real pinch me moment.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Oh great, good question. Truthfully, I mean, it's not even
that hard for me. The Grand Ole Opry debut was insane,
and I grew up in like theater and all this
kind of stuff, and I would I've never really got
nervous or like stage fright or anything like that. I like,
I would get nervous, of course, I get excited, you know,
more excited than nervous. And I never really you know,
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folded or anything under the pressure or anything like that.
But I've never been in my entire life more nervous
than my second time on the Grand Ole Opry. The
first time, I was just okay, you know, ready to go.
But the second time, you know, they invited me back.
You know, I have to make an even better impression
here because they invited me back, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
What'd you think about your Did you have fun here
at the first time?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Oh? Absolutely, because I did not have fun the first time.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I played it really well because I was like, I
don't want to screw this up.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, true, true, Drew.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
And there's like a cake and you got to sign yeah,
and it's like you're in the first time a room
and everything is like an experience. Yeah, And so I
didn't really have it was it meant something to me, absolutely,
but I didn't have fun because I just didn't want
to mess it up.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I felt like the second time, I actually looked in
people's faces, like I could actually take in the stage,
take in the crowd. There wasn't it wasn't a big deal.
I just got went to my room. I went to
the comedy room. They were like, you're in rooms you know, sixteen?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yeah, have had it. Yeah. I enjoyed. Treated you like
like almost like a local. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, I enjoyed the second time. That's a great way
to put it. I mean I kind of agree with that.
You know, I didn't necessarily. I definitely had fun while
I was up there on stage, but kind of like
you said, you were just like, holy cow, I don't
want to mess this up. You know, the great o
Lobrary just invited a fifteen year old to play.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Fifteen but you yes, yeah, yeah, maybe Lobry just invited
a fifteen year old.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, me confused, But dude, I was, Oh my goodness,
I was.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I was so nervous. But you know, luckily, I think
I pulled through. I think I handled myself as well
as I could and I think so too.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I definitely tried, And after I heard it back, I
was like, oh, no, I talked too much. But you know,
I mean, no one's gonna be harder on in yourself
than yourself.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Do you listen back to everything?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I listened back on that because I wanted to see,
like if I was just listening as a fan, like
what it would sound like.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
And I think it did fine.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know, you could definitely tell my voice a little shaky,
of course, but you know I'm kidding. Yeah, no, seriously,
I mixed with puberty nervousness, and you know that that's
a good mix, you know, I mean, that's gonna that's
gonna shake your voice up.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
But you're doing a lot of shows, man, Yeah, most definitely.
I mean for me, performing is my favorite part. So
the tours and stuff like that, I mean that doesn't
I mean, I have the best time.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You know, all all the shows coming up on the
you know, the live worldwide tour.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, it's a lot of shows. It's really cool. It's
a lot of shows.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I mean, you do like rock star tory, meaning like
country artists for the most part, they go away on
Friday Saturday and they come back, come back. There's a
lot of times here where you're gone three, four, five, six,
like eleven twelve days at a time. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
you're basically good Charlotte, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I do know good Charlotte. I god
know you know Stained. Yeah, it's been a while, yeah, exactly.
So the lead singer of Stained actually bought his childhood home.
Aaron Lewis lives in my dad's childhood home. Oh now, now,
right now, just recently, he lives in my dad's hildow.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
You can talk at you're good where in the northeast
or here in town?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Okay? Oh so yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it. So
he bought the house here Robertson County, got it?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Oh yeah, they they did my face as any last year.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
You got it before me.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
The guy at fourteen. I know that's where we're from.
The people that run that, like their son works with me.
He's my merch guy. He's one of my merch guys.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yeah, dang, I followed you. Yeah, he followed me up.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Dude, dude, someone Hey, can I actually tell him something funny?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah? Please?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Someone came to the punkin Patch this year and they
want they thought it was me. They were and they
were like, who's this? It's this Bobby guy.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Who's this weirdo?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
This?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I hate to tell you that. I hate to tell
you that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But I've heard words about me even today, So that's yeah. Uh, well,
congratulations man, Like, I'm super pumped for you.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I appreciate it. I love it. Your family's so tight.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I figured like watching you and your dad perform absolutely
together and knowing you guys a story.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Like that's super cool.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Thank you. Yeah, appreciate it. And are you playing any pickleball?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Doll?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Do you play? I play pickleball? Am I gonna say
I'm the best pickball?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Definitely not, but I definitely do play, and I do
like playing. It's like it's a sport. That's not golf.
Still active, but it's not like basketball. Like I grew
up playing basketball. That was what I wanted to do
for as long as I could. You get like hurt, Yeah,
I got hurt my right knee, and a lot of
people were like, dude, I had the same disease. I
played through it. I'm telling you, dog, I couldn't play
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through it. I had like the worst case you could
possibly imagine of this Ozgod Slaughter's disease.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
And I could not play diase.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
It's like this growth plate under your kneecap and it
was like poking out and if I hit it on
like if I literally just like touched it like this
at the time on the ground like hurting, like worst
pain I've ever felt in my life. And I couldn't
run jump stop and I just I was I had
a really quick first step. I was a really like
quick guard, especially you know for my stature, right, I
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was a really quick guard and that's what got me open.
I was a good shooter, and I just couldn't I
couldn't bend, I couldn't have that first step, and I
just it just went. I went from like a like
an a basketball player, Yes, No, I wasn't that. I
wasn't there like I went. All right, So the year
before my I got diagnosed, I was averaging thirty five
points a game. No way, I swear I was averaging
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thirty five points a game with the other players for
my school team. For my school team, you wereravaging thirty
five points a game. And then the year after I
probably went to like, what eleven.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Did you pass anybody the ball? Dude?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I mean, I'm not getting into this shit. I'm not
getting in this with you, Bobby. I'm not getting into that.
I've been accused of ball already entired no assists. I
passed the ball forty times in the game. I scored
forty five points. Forty times I passed the ball. You
know how many times I had? You know how mean assists?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I had? Two? I know, I believe it. I'm telling
you I'm a dimer.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Jason Williams is my favorite player of all time, and
I'm I'm doing fancy passing. I'm giving them the ball
and they're just not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So it's on them that you don't have assists. Yes, yes,
I'm passing them. There's footage four years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
I'm twelve years old, averaging thirty five points a game,
and I'm diming the ball off and they're not doing
nothing with it.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Much love to anyone on my team. I love you guys.
He tried, Yeah, he tried something, please do.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I was there every game. I missed one game because
I wanted to the beach points. My team scored one point.
They made a free throw. Wait when I wasn't gone.
And we lost one game that year.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
That was when you were gone. It was the only
game I lost.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Well, you were.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Accounting for all the points of the team. Yes, they
were like, we get to shoot. What the heck did
you do with this?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Dude? But I know a practice. They're all they're all stunned.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, you put the ball in the whole.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
They didn't know what to do. It was like exactly,
and I'm sorry. I love you guys. We just played defense.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Maddicks usually scores all the points. I get it, they
get the ball.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
It's just like a foreign language. All right, Maddicks. Good
to see you, buddy. I hope everybody comes out. You're
all over You're all over the world.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
That's really cool to see.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I'm excited for you to go to other countries and
eat food. You want to eat real food. Man, you're
gonna go places like you're gonna go to like London.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Dude, I heard London's pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
London's cool because the buildings are from like twelve hundred,
Like we have nothing here, and dude, we have the
founding father we have the buildings are thousands of years
old and still way cooler.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
It's wild. Yeahs cool. Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
They don't really have skyscrapers though, which is weird.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
You know, I wouldn't expect that because they're Oh they're
they're unk, They're much country. I feel like UK is
just like the unk country. Never like that, Like you're
the unk and you're UK and I'm the USA if
that makes sense. You know, I'm the young country. You're
the unk country.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I'm back to being insulted again.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Really good to spend some time with you. Congratulations and
all your success. Absolutely you guys. Following on Instagram Maddox
bats and uh I'm pumped. I'm pumped to Uh are
you playing Nashville at all?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You are? Right? You have?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
We play Pinnacle in May.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah in May. Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
All right, there he is Thank you guy so much.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production.
I'm twelve years old, averaging thirty five boys a game,
and I'm diming the ball off and they're not doing
nothing with it.
Speaker 2 (00:12):
Much love to anyone on my team. I love you, guys.
Speaker 3 (00:17):
Welcome to episode five point fifty nine with Maddox Batson.
I think you said it best. I think you said
this is our first guest who did not have a
driver's license and had to be driven over to the house. Yeah.
Speaker 4 (00:27):
They couldn't drive them to the interview, and.
Speaker 3 (00:29):
Not because it expired, but because they're just not old
enough to have a driver's license. Yeah, he's fifteen, and
so I get there are always teen stars, but you
just don't expect because Maddick is a cool He's a
cool fifteen year old. Yeah, you just don't expect it
to be bluegrass. Could you imagine yourself coming into an
interview at fifteen years old like this, Like how would
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you conduct yourself at fifteen?
Speaker 2 (00:55):
Yeah, I don't know.
Speaker 3 (00:56):
Like I thought of me at fifteen, I'm like, dude,
I would sound like an idiot. Yeah, I don't know.
I guess I didn't think about it like that. My
whole thing was he's playing such traditional old school music
like it is it's a bluegrass kid that comes in
and we talk about way later on, like how he
loved playing basketball and how good he was.
Speaker 2 (01:13):
That was on Mike right.
Speaker 3 (01:14):
Yeah, so like he's just a regular kid who played bluegrass.
But you're right, he's fifteen years old. His dad came
with him, but his dad didn't come with him just
because he's his dad. His dad's like when he blew
up online, he was already playing shows, but when he
blew up online, his dad was playing a lot of
stuff with him because his dad's an instrumentalist, a musician.
So yeah, I really enjoyed it.
Speaker 2 (01:35):
Good kid.
Speaker 3 (01:35):
I feel like he's a good kid. Now what they
have to do is make sure he stays a good kid. Yeah,
once you get about seventeen to twenty, those are the
dicey years.
Speaker 2 (01:44):
Loved it.
Speaker 3 (01:45):
Check out Maddoxbatson dot com for dates and tickets. He
just announced a new world tour. He's going all over
the place. He's got some Christmas songs out, a couple
of covers last Christmas, and I'll be home for Christmas.
But we talked about where is he from Nashville or Alabama?
Because he kind of bounced back and forth, but he's a.
Speaker 2 (01:59):
Blue Grays kid. Uh.
Speaker 3 (02:01):
I hope you like it here. He is my new friend,
but only when other adults are around. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
Maddox Batson. The only time he was going over there,
that's right, that's right, it's only coming over his dad's
with Tom. Yes, Maddox, good to see buddy, got to
see you. I know, last time we tried to do this,
I think I was I had the flu or something.
Speaker 1 (02:16):
Yeah, so we were gonna try to do it like
before my tour, and then you know, just had a
conflict with your flu and my tour.
Speaker 2 (02:22):
So now it's now.
Speaker 3 (02:23):
I saw that speaking of your tour, I saw like
an announcement maybe this morning. I think I read it
on my show, like you're doing like a worldwide tour
first ever.
Speaker 2 (02:32):
Yeah, that's cup fun.
Speaker 1 (02:33):
Yeah, dude, I've never been over the pond. I was
literally before this. Maybe my dad were on the way
to you know, go get my passport photo.
Speaker 2 (02:39):
You don't have it yet, No, I do not.
Speaker 1 (02:40):
I don't have my license. I have zero identification of
any sort any kind. So yeah, I was on the
way to get that, and then you know, realized we
didn't have enough time.
Speaker 4 (02:49):
So wit, So you didn't take the picture.
Speaker 2 (02:50):
No, we didn't get to.
Speaker 1 (02:51):
I was taking a left and then I was like,
I probably don't have enough time, so popped.
Speaker 4 (02:54):
Alright, think about a passport picture.
Speaker 1 (02:56):
M M.
Speaker 4 (02:57):
It always sucks.
Speaker 2 (02:58):
Really, Yeah, that's not good because you got to.
Speaker 3 (03:00):
Like stand at like a against a white wall.
Speaker 2 (03:03):
You're not a lot of smile.
Speaker 3 (03:04):
Or you look like you're about to murder someone. We're
about to commit a crime or something.
Speaker 2 (03:08):
Gee, that's terrible. I'm not excited for it. Now where
excited to go? Honestly? I heard we're going to Dublin,
aren't we.
Speaker 1 (03:15):
Yeah, Ireland and just like that type of stuff over
there is just going to be super cool. Like I've
always wanted to just you know, just go to Europe
in general and just you know, scope it out. So
I'm a huge golfer as well, So if we get
to go play like Saint Andrew's or something, that would
be kind of cool as well.
Speaker 2 (03:29):
I don't know if we'll have time, but.
Speaker 1 (03:31):
That's what you make time for exactly. I would you
get to go to Dublin every week exactly? I mean
I'm not, you know, over there all the time. So
if I have like even like a few hours off.
I loved you know, catch a little catch a little
ride to mister old Saint Andrews. That'd be kind of cool.
Speaker 3 (03:46):
Are you playing starting to be winter now? But what
are you playing a lot of golf?
Speaker 2 (03:49):
Oh? All the time?
Speaker 4 (03:50):
Dude?
Speaker 1 (03:50):
Like I think we played twenty one rounds of golf
while I was on tour for two months.
Speaker 2 (03:54):
And that's that's kind of unhealthy.
Speaker 1 (03:56):
I mean, technically it's not unhealthy because you're getting you know,
fit doing it.
Speaker 5 (04:00):
It.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Kind of I don't know by golf.
Speaker 4 (04:01):
Well, if you're carding it, I don't know how fit
you're gonna get.
Speaker 2 (04:03):
Yeah, walk card, I definitely cart. Yeah, I'm not on
a show to do too exactly. I gotta stay rested
kind of. Yeah.
Speaker 3 (04:10):
What's difficult is because we'd go play golf. You know,
I do stand up and we play golf, but the
sun would like wear me down really yeah, like you're
out in the sun, one of those big hats.
Speaker 4 (04:19):
Well, just you just have.
Speaker 3 (04:21):
To like, you know, you'd play eighteen and you like,
I'm not affected at all, but you get to the
venue to.
Speaker 2 (04:25):
Be tired my goodness. Yeah. Yeah, well that's young.
Speaker 1 (04:27):
Yeah, that's my perks that I'm just about to say,
you know, perk being fifteen years old is you know,
the sun doesn't wear me down too bad, you know so,
I think for being as bad as a golfer as
I am, the twenty rounds didn't really help me become
a better golfer, but it definitely helped me, like take
my mind off of some things, because you know, while
you're on tour, you can, you know, kind of get
in your head about all kinds of different stuff and
just having those few hours to yourself or with a
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few buddies to just you know, forget about everything. But
the next shot that you're taking, and it helps more
than people know for sure.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
Your family come out on tour with you.
Speaker 1 (04:58):
Oh, absolutely full family, mom, dad, sister, and they're all
working with me too, which is super fun. Like my dad,
you know who works with me, and my sister works
with me, and my cousin. My mom, I mean she
kind of just chills.
Speaker 3 (05:08):
You know.
Speaker 1 (05:09):
I'd rather hurt chill because I mean she deserves it.
She raised me so.
Speaker 2 (05:14):
Absolutely.
Speaker 1 (05:15):
But he wants to know he's ready to go.
Speaker 2 (05:18):
He's ready to go.
Speaker 1 (05:19):
Mom's like, I'll take a I'll take a step back,
and you know, I'll let her have that for sure.
But like my cousin as well, so they all kind
of we all kind of work hand in hand, which
is super cool. And they're the only people on the
planet that'll never expect anything from me other than just maddics.
Speaker 2 (05:32):
So that's why I love him the most.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Yeah, I think people if they didn't know your background
would be surprised that you have such a bluegrass history.
Speaker 1 (05:41):
Absolutely, I mean just with him, and you know, just
like my entire come up, I was I was kind
of born into it. Like he was a mandolin national
champion when he was like twelve, my dad you were Yeah, yeah,
he got to play with Bill Monroe on stage and
stuff like that. So yeah, he's he's a legend. Unfortunately,
being left handed, I play everything every instrument right handed,
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and it's kind of awkward. I'm not very fast picker,
but you know, I try my best. Mandolin such a
cool instrument. But yeah, my entire life I grew I
grew up on bluegrass music, and maybe if I didn't
love it as much as a kid, I'm kind of
like showing an appreciation for it.
Speaker 4 (06:13):
What's the first instrument you got and how old were.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You first instrument I ever started playing, I'd say I
think it was piano.
Speaker 2 (06:20):
I was like seven.
Speaker 1 (06:20):
My mom wanted me to start on piano before I
did a stringed instrument, just so I can learn like
music theory and music like her learned how to read music.
She always wanted me to learn how to read music.
And yeah, shout out to Adam King, my piano teacher.
I took lessons for around like four years. Consistency. What's
the word consistently there? It is perfect, you know, fifteen
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years old, homeschooled. I can't really say many words, but
you know, piano was definitely number one. And then I
was like ten when I picked up guitar and like
COVID and stuff.
Speaker 3 (06:51):
Yeah, whenever you're learning piano, was it something that you
liked doing even at that age.
Speaker 1 (06:56):
If I'm being completely honest with you, Bobby, absolutely, like
not at all at all. It was a complete like
forced like force. My mom had to force me to
do it. I love to sing, and I love to
sing it like church and like singing growing up, like
with my dad and stuff. But playing the piano and
playing like reading the reading the absolutely not you couldn't,
like you couldn't pay me to do it. But as
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I grew older and started appreciating music a little bit
more and appreciating that girls appreciate music and that kind
of stuff, I would, you know, lean into it a
little bit more like, yeah, I can play, you know.
Speaker 3 (07:28):
So are you happy now that you have that background
a piano?
Speaker 4 (07:30):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (07:31):
Absolutely, because it benefits me so much because like with
my band, I always felt like I didn't know what
I was talking about and then knowing having like right,
not necessarily not knowing what I was talking about, but
like they're so good at what they do and they
know like everything about music theory.
Speaker 2 (07:46):
You know, they kind of put me in my place.
Speaker 1 (07:47):
But knowing having that little bit of background a piano
makes me understand and that just you know, it's it's
it's very beneficial.
Speaker 2 (07:54):
For sure.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
I'm super glad. Shout out mom, Thanks for shout out mom.
Thank you so much for making me do it against
my will.
Speaker 4 (07:58):
Shout outs mom, thank you.
Speaker 3 (08:00):
Whenever you started playing guitar, were you super anxious to
get started on guitar? Was it like something you were
looking forward to, like you were graduating from piano?
Speaker 2 (08:07):
Absolutely?
Speaker 1 (08:08):
And then I picked it up and realized my fingers
hurt really bad. I started taking I didn't like, he
plays guitar really well. And you know, I didn't really
have to get like a teacher, quote unquote, like I
had a teacher. But it's kind of you know, it
was like once a month. Maybe it's really not as
good as your dad exactly exactly. And I would just
I would just learn from him and pick stuff up
from him, and he would teach me things, and you know,
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my hands would hurt all the time, and I didn't
want to play.
Speaker 2 (08:32):
I wanted to play. It was like I wanted to play,
but it hurt so bad. And that's it was. It
was a whole thing.
Speaker 1 (08:37):
But once I started building those calluses, I mean I
played it all the time.
Speaker 3 (08:40):
Well I played left handed, but I played left handed
really yeah awsome?
Speaker 2 (08:43):
So he played this way?
Speaker 3 (08:44):
Yeah, so I played yeah this, Why do you flip
it if you're left handed?
Speaker 2 (08:48):
I'll tell you right now. When I picked it up.
Speaker 1 (08:50):
When I picked up the guitar at ten years old,
my dad told me it was like, dude, if you
go to a party, exactly, what are the odds that
left handed guitar is going to be sitting on the
wall and there's a girl you want to umpress. And
I was like, dude, you're so right and so right.
He's so right, you know. And I was like, all right,
I'll thug it out and learn it right handed. I mean,
it's now, I don't think I could switch, Like, I'm
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so used to playing it right handed. I truly don't
think I could switch to playing it left handed. It
feels so weird.
Speaker 4 (09:16):
The difficult things about being left handed.
Speaker 3 (09:18):
And you'll know this first of all guitars right there's
no there are no other left handed guitars anywhere, and
people are playing songs and like if I didn't, I
don't bring mine.
Speaker 2 (09:25):
Yeah I don't have one. Yeah, you don't get to play.
Speaker 3 (09:27):
Or I'm like, uh GC, just I'm not telling somebody
what to play.
Speaker 2 (09:31):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (09:31):
Ball gloves, ball, oh terrible like equipment in any sport
left handed sport.
Speaker 2 (09:36):
Like literally, I remember I was.
Speaker 1 (09:38):
I played baseball growing up, and that was the worst
because the gloves didn't look as cool like I remember,
like Wilson makes like really colorful like and that was
like the style like and I played outfield and I
was a pitcher and stuff like that and they made
really really colorful, like nice cool gloves for righties, but
for lefties they made nothing, just felders so huge thirteen
(09:59):
inch gloves that my eleven year old hand didn't fit
hit and I was I was mad, but you know,
I finally found me one and I still have it
to this day.
Speaker 2 (10:07):
It's like my favorite glove and I use it all
the time, like you're one, It's my one glove.
Speaker 4 (10:11):
Colorful left handed gloves.
Speaker 1 (10:12):
Oh it's not colorful, No, it's it's just hand.
Speaker 2 (10:16):
It's basic. But you know, I like it a lot.
Speaker 1 (10:17):
And now that I've grown up a little bit, I'm like, yeah,
this kind of looks much better than the pink and
blue and black and you know, the.
Speaker 3 (10:24):
On I feel like and just watching the relationship that
you and your dad have even had just ear here,
absolutely like for you guys to grow up be dad
and son, to also be teacher and student, to also
be like mentor like that's a lot.
Speaker 4 (10:38):
I feel like you guys are still like getting along.
Speaker 2 (10:40):
Oh absolutely absolutely.
Speaker 1 (10:42):
I mean I spend every day with them, you know,
and that's kind of like most kids, like a normal
you know, fifteen year old, you know, you go to
school seven hours, you go to practice after maybe you
do another extracurricular and then you come home and spend
time with your parents, right, But for me, I mean,
I mean I spend every day with them, every day,
every hour, every minute, I mean pretty much, you know,
because I'm on the road all the time, and even
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when I'm home, I don't really do much, you know,
I'm more I just like to chill, so I'm with
them a lot. And surprisingly, you know, I mean, of
course we get on each other's nerves, and I mean
that's just the way it's going to be. But you know,
we're very very close relationship and I take a lot
of you know, that's that means a lot to me,
you know, because like having your family close, I mean
is so beneficial, especially in the music industry. Music industry
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is such like a cutthroat business and having them that
you know to make great decisions for you and you know,
will help you make those decisions because at fifteen, as
much as I think I know everything, I definitely don't,
so like having.
Speaker 2 (11:37):
You never will know everything, no, yea, all these ages
is like I think I got it out, yeah, exactly.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
And you know, even when I'm like you know, close
to being dead and gone, I'll think I'll of everything
and the you know, figure out that there's so much
for stuff that I got to learn, and that's just
the way it is, and that's I mean, we have
a very close relationship and I'm very thankful for it.
Speaker 2 (11:55):
Sure. What about school? Do you homeschool? Yeah? Homeschool? I
just I had school this morning. What is that?
Speaker 1 (12:00):
Like?
Speaker 4 (12:00):
What's homeschool?
Speaker 1 (12:01):
So basically it's like two times a week and it's
like lectures for around two hours. So I'm like doubling
down after I got off tour. For on tour, it
was like two times a week, one hour, right, but
now it's two times a week, two hours, and then
I'll have homework throughout the week.
Speaker 2 (12:15):
It's relatively easy.
Speaker 1 (12:16):
It's just enough to get me by so I can
get by diploma because I don't want to, you know,
be twenty five and be like, man, I kind of
wish I got my diploma. So I just want to,
you know, go ahead and get that over with and
you know, get as many points as I can maybe
go to college when I'm a little bit older as well.
Speaker 3 (12:31):
So if you take music out and let's say you
take sports out, Like what do you do?
Speaker 2 (12:35):
Like, what does a fifteen year old do? What would
I do? If I didn't like now, Like, what do
you do? No, I don't know what a fifteen year
old does anymore, Dude, what would I What do I do? Dude?
I'm kind of an old guy now.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I spent I hang out with so many old people,
Like I collect watches and I golf, Like that's like
that's my that's my hobbies.
Speaker 2 (12:52):
It's kind of weird.
Speaker 1 (12:53):
I hunt all the time, you know, I'm a bit
I'm a huge hunter, and I love doing that. And
I kind of just I love I kind of like
I'm starting to appreciate alone time more than I used to.
Like I used to be like and heang, I never
want to be alone because like I just make it.
Then you'll get in your head and you start thinking
too much, Like this is the way I am. And
I've always wanted to have people around me to just
bounce ideas off of and just talk to. You know,
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I'm a big talker, so I've always wanted to have
people around. But like, hunting kind of like chills me out.
When I'm out there by myself, I can just you know,
think about the good things and maybe even think about
the bad things.
Speaker 2 (13:25):
But you know that kind of stuff.
Speaker 1 (13:27):
I mean.
Speaker 2 (13:27):
But yeah, like I said, I'm kind of a kind
of an older guy.
Speaker 1 (13:30):
It was a man, I'm definitely an old fifteen year old.
I mean, I definitely have buddies, and you know, I'll
hang out with them every now and then for sure,
and I'm very thankful for them. They're keeping me young,
you know. But I just hang around so many old
guys that it. You know, I'm doing all kinds of
old stuff too.
Speaker 3 (13:46):
So what about watches? How'd you get into watches?
Speaker 1 (13:48):
Dude? Like I said, like, I'm hanging like my manager,
he's a huge watch guy.
Speaker 2 (13:52):
My lawyer is a huge watch guy.
Speaker 4 (13:54):
In fact, you have a lawyer. Yeah you're an old man.
Speaker 2 (13:56):
Yeah yeah d s yeah yeah my lawyer.
Speaker 1 (13:59):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (13:59):
Too many cases.
Speaker 1 (14:01):
But yeah, they got me into it, and I just
I like Heller made That's a very big appreciation toward
towards him. I got my dad, what is that, a
yacht Master Master for his birthday, and I'm getting a
day eight like this week. So I'm like, I just
love collecting them. It's just super fun for me and
I just I just I'm a huge John Mayer fan,
and John Mayer is a huge watch guy, and I
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kind of like took in both from him, and yeah,
I'm just a just an old soul man.
Speaker 4 (14:27):
John Mayor is my favorite artist.
Speaker 2 (14:29):
Yeah, he's my favorite artist of all time.
Speaker 4 (14:31):
Yeah, favorite favorite album.
Speaker 1 (14:33):
Probably like the The Edge of Desire album, that's my
favorite song.
Speaker 2 (14:37):
I can't remember the name of the album.
Speaker 3 (14:39):
I think it was I'm a big like everybody loves
Continuum because it's like the most Like that's like when
he kind of changed his sound a bit, and also
you kind of went from like kid to adult.
Speaker 1 (14:55):
Battle Studies is the name of that Thank You came
out on my birthday? Actually, I think it was either
November or thirteenth or December thirteenth, two thousand and nine,
Like literally my date of birth is when that album
came out, which is super cool.
Speaker 3 (15:07):
I like Born and Raised and a lot of people
I don't love Born and Raised because it's more of
a Southwestern nype flair, But I really enjoyed.
Speaker 4 (15:14):
That record from John Mayer.
Speaker 2 (15:16):
It's a great record.
Speaker 4 (15:16):
What is it about him that makes you love his music?
Speaker 2 (15:20):
Dude, He's he's just a sad guy.
Speaker 1 (15:22):
You know. I mean, he's it's just like I love
the way he can make the guitar scene. There's not
many artists that can, you know, do that. And I
love to take inspiration from him. I mean, I don't
make many songs like John, but you know, it's it's
still cool to just listen to him. And like when
I'm by myself and you know, I'm on a plane ride,
I'm always listening to him, and it's just he's just
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a guy I can kind of like resonate with. He
makes music that it's just I don't know, I just
love listening to it.
Speaker 2 (15:48):
It just makes me. You know.
Speaker 3 (15:50):
He was the first songwriter that I ever heard that
like wrote from my.
Speaker 4 (15:54):
Perspective really like ever.
Speaker 3 (15:56):
Yeah, because again, I've loved music my whole life. It
was hearing John Mayer write songs about the way I felt,
not just writing songs about how he felt, but he
wrote songs and I was like, oh man, that's how
I feel.
Speaker 4 (16:08):
Like he was that first songwriter for me.
Speaker 3 (16:10):
Yeah, so as much as you know he has bangers, yeah,
like his songwriting to me, yeah was super important and
like my musical growth.
Speaker 1 (16:19):
Yeah, it was truthfully, like like some songs like, like
I was saying, edgrid Desire is my favorite Edgeard Desire
and in Your Atmosphere are my two favorite John songs.
Speaker 2 (16:30):
And like, I covered Edgward.
Speaker 1 (16:31):
Desire like a year ago, and I was covering it
during my set, and like, I doubt anyone in the
crowd knew what that song was, but I remember playing.
Speaker 2 (16:40):
I was playing Brooklyn Bowl.
Speaker 1 (16:41):
I was playing Brooklyn Bowl a few days after my
birthday last year, sold out show and my aunt was
there and I was playing it and I had, I
mean great song, and no one really knew what the
song was. I was just like, hey, I'm just gonna
play this for you guys, because I truly, I truly
love it.
Speaker 2 (16:57):
Yeah, I was doing it for me, you know. I
was doing it for me. I wanted to play it.
Speaker 1 (17:00):
And I found out later that it was my aunt's
wedding song, which was kind of It was cool, it
was awesome.
Speaker 2 (17:06):
It was just like a I didn't.
Speaker 1 (17:07):
Even know it, you know, And then I got off
stage and found that out, and it's just like the
coolest thing. And I think his music just you know,
you can play it throughout very like various occasions, if
that makes sense.
Speaker 2 (17:18):
You can play it anytime.
Speaker 1 (17:19):
You know, you can play it you're sad, you can
play it at a house party, you can play it,
you know, at a wedding. You know, you can play
it pretty much anywhere. And I think he's a very versatile,
versatile artist for sure.
Speaker 6 (17:29):
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Speaker 4 (17:44):
Who are your favorite artists?
Speaker 2 (17:45):
If you were doing Mount Rushmore for artists for wow,
Mount Rushmore, you don't need to be in a format,
it's just.
Speaker 4 (17:51):
Okay, who do you love?
Speaker 2 (17:52):
She's a great, great question, John Mayer, for sure.
Speaker 3 (17:58):
Uh, Keith Willie, Is that from your dad's influence?
Speaker 1 (18:05):
Yeah, Dad's influence for sure. And I took influence from
my parents, my grandparents, and my sister. My sister's twelve
years older than me, so I'd get a lot of
musical influence from her. When I was like five, she
was driving, so she would just drive me around all
the time and put on OX so I would listen
to like Justin Bieber and Usher and Chris Brown and
you know, One Direction and all those guys.
Speaker 2 (18:25):
With her.
Speaker 1 (18:27):
Number three, i'd have to say George Jones just because
he's I mean a legend.
Speaker 2 (18:34):
I don't.
Speaker 1 (18:35):
I mean, I'm not gonna say I listen to him
all the time, but I think, yeah, I love his voice.
He could hit like every octave. You know, it's like
one of the only artists I could do that. And
then I'll give you another like I love. This is
a very underrated pool. If this is a very subjective thing,
Like if you asked me last week, I'd probably have
another four artists. John Mayer is pretty solidified, but like
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these guys are kind of you know, it depends on
the day, but I'd probably say number four is like
Ed Sharon, like like another guy like that, just a
you know, complete curveball from everyone else. But like, I mean,
think about it, if you really think about like Ed
Sharon's songs, Dude, he's he's a legend, and he's got
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like so many bangers and so many just amazing songs
and just amazing songwriter.
Speaker 2 (19:26):
And I haven't.
Speaker 1 (19:28):
Dude, I wish I know he's making mad bank too,
because he stage the size of this.
Speaker 2 (19:36):
It's literally just him a loop pedal and a guitar
and you know, an arena or a stadium.
Speaker 1 (19:40):
Yeah, and yeah, exactly all that money all of it,
literally all of it.
Speaker 2 (19:44):
No production costs. You've had to learn all about that now,
right like overhead? Oh yeah, dude, it's it's bad. It stinks.
He definitely knowes, you know.
Speaker 1 (19:52):
I mean, I try to incorporate my my myself into
the business as much as I can, but you know,
I have to accept the fact that I definitely don't
know everything, you know, kind of like I said earlier,
and I'm learning for sure, And I learned from him,
and I learned from you know, guys on my team
and that kind of stuff on how everything works. So
when I'm eighteen, you know, that's I can. I can
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go out and do this by myself and not get
taken advantage of or anything like that. And that's why
I started at fifteen, you know, I mean because like
of course, when I was you know, first starting to
do this, and you know, I was going to Texas
with my dad and started performing and started picking up
a little bit of attraction on social media and all
this kind of stuff, and people were reaching out. There
was definitely a question, you know, like dang, do we
want to do this? We want to pull him out
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of school? Do we want to do all this? Kind
of stuff. And I think it was my mom that
they were in the bed. They were like talking about it.
My mom was crying, he was probably crying all this
kind of stuff. She turned around, He's like, well, if
we do it now, that we can help him, you know,
because he's going to do it at eighteen anyway. You know,
he's going to do something like this that you know,
when he's a little bit older anyway, And when he's
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older then we can't help him, you know, but we
can help him now. And that's I mean, that was
like pretty much the turning point decision is when they're like,
I guess, yeah, you're right. And I'm super blessed that
she made that decision because I'd be I'd be I'd
be lost. I wouldn't know what to do without these guys,
and you know, I've learned so much from them and
just super thankful for sure.
Speaker 3 (21:13):
Talk about your dad and you going to Texas like
that was like once a month.
Speaker 2 (21:17):
Oh dude, not months of what dude.
Speaker 1 (21:18):
We were down there probably for a solid year, playing
three four hour sets in the Texas heat.
Speaker 2 (21:25):
How often would you go down I'd say like two
three times a month?
Speaker 1 (21:28):
Maybe? Wow, you know, yeah, and we'd make that from
we'd make that drive from you know, Birmingham to like
Dallas Fort Worth, and I would play in front of
ten people who didn't care. You know, It's just me
and him and a guitar, and we thought we were
living it up, you know. And I was playing three
four hour sets opening up for you know who knows, right,
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I mean, actually I do know. I mean some of
my favorite guys. His name's Taylor Branch. He's a really
cool guy, and I got to open up for him
one time. And like Ryder Grimes, he was another mentor
of mine. He was like eighteen years old. I brought
him out on tour with me, you know, and I'm
just super thankful for that, like Texas grassroots country, that
I got to you know, go experience, because I didn't
want to be a guy that's known and I you know,
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got my start behind a screen, you know, And that
was like a huge thing for me and my dad
and just a whole decision as a you know, group
that I wanted to learn how to play live.
Speaker 2 (22:22):
I wanted to go, you know, experience what.
Speaker 1 (22:24):
It is because quite honestly, that helps more than people know.
And That's why I think performing is one of my
better parts of you know, my artistry is because I
would go play at those four hour sets in one
hundred and ten degree Texas heat and no one cared,
you know, and have to endure, like realize that you
have to put on a show for really people to
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turn ahead. And that was I mean, it was. It
was something that I learned and I'm glad I did.
I wouldn't trade it for anything. And now you know,
I go up on stage and I'm playing in front
of thousands of people each night, who you knowing my
sing every single lyric to every single song I have,
and it's just like I still put on that same
show that I feel was at a winery with fiances
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who were planning their wedding who weren't listening. You know,
it's the same I'm putting on this music exactly.
Speaker 2 (23:11):
I know, seriously.
Speaker 1 (23:12):
That was my first show May twenty at twenty twenty
three was my first show, and I was wearing a
Pittsburgh Steelers jersey.
Speaker 2 (23:18):
I'm a Steelers fan, and it was.
Speaker 1 (23:21):
In my hometown, probably like fifteen minutes away from my house,
and I was playing. I was playing an hour I
was playing probably two three hours, probably a three hour gig,
me and my dad, and there's probably you know, twenty
girls there planning their wedding and they didn't care, you know.
Speaker 2 (23:36):
And that's fine. You know, I was playing. I was
playing my.
Speaker 1 (23:38):
Covers anyway, so I didn't care, you know, And I
wouldn't trade it for nothing.
Speaker 2 (23:42):
I'm super glad I did it.
Speaker 3 (23:43):
Do you feel like, because you're so young, people think
that you did come from behind a screen first?
Speaker 2 (23:48):
Oh? Absolutely, And that's just like what you're gonna do
about it.
Speaker 1 (23:52):
You know. There's some people that are just they did
They just have that closed mind and they're gonna think
that no matter what, you know, hater's gonna hate. But
for the people that have an open mind and or
like curious on truly how I got my start is
it wasn't you know. I mean, of course some of
it was, you know, and I would post online and
do all that kind of stuff, and I would go
live with my dad.
Speaker 2 (24:13):
But also I was putting in the work.
Speaker 1 (24:15):
A lot of it was a lot, a lot of
hard work, you know, Like I just said, I would
go play live all the time, and I would beg
to go play live because I just love, you know,
making that connection with people, you know, because you can't
do that over a screen. You can't, like, you can't
love somebody over a screen, you can't make a connection
with people over a screen. You can't do many things
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over a screen. But what we can't do in person
is make a connection, you know. And that's I learned that,
and I'm glad I got to carry that over. And yeah,
it's just I did to an extent, but I also
put in a lot of work behind the scenes that
a lot of people that kind of gets like, you know,
overpassed because TikTok was a or social media in general
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was a big part for sure.
Speaker 3 (25:00):
Yeah, I don't feel like you are a legitimate screen
kid with music, because I do. You're playing a lot
of shows, yes, and not taking anything away from screen kids, yeah,
of course, or screen adults, like it's just another way
to get discovered. Yeah, but there are people that I
know that are now big artists who were discovered on
TikTok that they're really massive artists, absolutely, but they had
to like learn all the live performance stuff after they
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had already popped. And that's an awkward place to be
when there are people watching you and you really don't
know what you're doing, but you're already famous for doing it.
Speaker 2 (25:30):
Yeah.
Speaker 1 (25:30):
Absolutely, And that's why I'm super blessed that I did
it before. You know, I didn't necessarily have that. I mean,
I I'm not gonna say I did it before my
first ever TikTok video, but I definitely did it before
I had like one hundred thousand followers. I was doing
all that kind of stuff with like ten thousand followers maybe,
you know, and I was, you know, I was posting consistently,
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but I wasn't just posting in my house. I was posting,
you know, come out to the show tonight, hear it?
You know the sidekicks for and grow at you know,
the dive bar at Texas where I just got at
thirteen years old. I probably just got you know, free
pool quarters to go for the pool, but I.
Speaker 2 (26:08):
Didn't get anything else other than that.
Speaker 1 (26:10):
But uh yeah, it's just uh you know, I mean,
I'm thankful for it for sure, because it taught me
a lot of things about, you know, a lot of performing.
Speaker 5 (26:19):
The Bobby Cast will be right back. This is the
Bobby Cast.
Speaker 3 (26:33):
So you got donything cool like go to New York
or LA.
Speaker 1 (26:36):
Yeah, yeah, I got I love New York. I like
New York better in LA.
Speaker 2 (26:40):
I like LA. I don't hate LA. He doesn't not
he doesn't like LA. I like LA.
Speaker 1 (26:44):
I like hanging out there. I like seeing like just
it's just such a different world out there. It's like
a whole other country and it's just super cool. I
like being out there.
Speaker 4 (26:53):
Do New York first, Like, what do you like about
New York?
Speaker 1 (26:54):
What do I like about New York. I love the
culture in New York. I love there's if there's culture
in New York. I don't think there's a whole lot
of culture in LA. I mean there's culture, but like
in New York, it's so strong and you can like
see it everywhere. And I felt like I was in
a movie the entire time. You know, I felt like
I was Batman, you know, I was just I seriously,
I was riding around in an uber and I saw
steam coming out of a you know, a drain, and
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I was like, dang, I'm in a movie. You know.
Speaker 2 (27:19):
It was awesome. I felt like a Maria Gotham City, Yeah,
god city.
Speaker 1 (27:22):
Seriously, and I I dud it was so cool and
you know. I was going around. It's like New York,
you know. I mean they were definitely yelling at me
for doing that, but I was cool. I was like, yes,
please yell at me because I felt like I was.
It was just like the coolest saying and honking yell. Yeah,
please please yell at me, curse please.
Speaker 2 (27:41):
You know, I want to. I want to feel the experience.
I like New York. Yeah, New York except when it's cold, really,
and I was.
Speaker 1 (27:47):
I was in I was there in May. I was
there in May. I didn't see it when it was cold.
Speaker 2 (27:51):
I didn't. You don't want to really. Maybe it's pretty
hot though it's kind of muggy. It was like eighty.
Speaker 3 (27:55):
The word thing about New York is a lot of
people don't have air conditioners there because.
Speaker 2 (27:57):
They don't need it for very long really, so they
don't buy them. Wow.
Speaker 3 (28:01):
So why would you buy an air conditioner if you're
only needing it for three or four weeks out of
the year.
Speaker 2 (28:05):
Gee. Yeah, I guess you're right.
Speaker 3 (28:06):
We're weather wise, like La is awesome, but traffic, oh terrible.
Speaker 2 (28:10):
It's terrible.
Speaker 1 (28:11):
Like I feel like I could I could be in
the heart of La and I could drive fifteen minutes,
or I could drive two hours and still feel like
I'm in the city, Like, if that makes sense in
any direction, I could drive thirty minutes south and still dang,
I'm looking at the same building, you know, same with
New York.
Speaker 2 (28:27):
But New Year's cooler because it's New York. Yeah you
can walk.
Speaker 1 (28:29):
Yeah, I can just walk to New York. No one
really drives in New York anyway. But I mean I
liked LA. I have an appreciation of LA. Amazing music
stuff out there, you know, and I've I've written with
some great people out there, and you know, gotten in
some obsessions. A plus weather, oh A plus absolutely seventy
Sonny and seventy five or sixty five every day.
Speaker 3 (28:47):
F traffic if I'm grading aps weather, okay, F traffic, Okay.
Speaker 2 (28:51):
What do you know about S tire? You ever heard
of S? Here? There's like S above A. It's like, sa,
is this the new grading system?
Speaker 1 (28:56):
Yeah?
Speaker 2 (28:57):
It's like the how long has this been a thing? So? A?
And then is red S is like above A? S
is like perfect. I don't know about this.
Speaker 1 (29:04):
Yeah, this is like the new gen grading system. I
would say, is it No, it's probably I don't know.
I've seen it probably ten years ago.
Speaker 2 (29:12):
Okay, so it was like five.
Speaker 1 (29:13):
It's S yeah, S, S, A, B, C, D E
F or no no e no e.
Speaker 4 (29:19):
You're flipping my brain?
Speaker 2 (29:20):
All right, No the E.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
I just I got stuck in the alphabet ways, you know,
a little too young.
Speaker 2 (29:25):
It's all good.
Speaker 1 (29:26):
Take away the E d F, so S means perfect,
S means perfect, like perfect weather.
Speaker 2 (29:32):
Why did they pick the letter S?
Speaker 1 (29:33):
Like? What does that even standard? I didn't make the rules.
I'm just a messenger, man, I have so I have
no clue.
Speaker 2 (29:38):
Our messages had scrambled my brain.
Speaker 1 (29:42):
Superior messages, superior, Yeah, superior boom, Yeah, that's yeah, got it.
Speaker 3 (29:47):
Okay, So S weather, S weather, F traffic, traffic in
the New York I'm gonna give it a I'm.
Speaker 2 (29:53):
Gonna give it a C minus traffic, you know, even
a D.
Speaker 3 (29:57):
Yeah, I can go with that. I can go with
D traffic, but at least you can places.
Speaker 1 (30:00):
Yeah, but the walking kind of brings it up, yeah,
a little bit, because there's no I mean, there's walking traffic,
but like you're walking.
Speaker 3 (30:06):
I'm gonna say a food in New York. I'm not
gonna go S food. But I'm gonna go a food,
A food, and I had. I'm not gonna say I
have the best food of my entire life in New York.
I don't even think I ate a slice of pizza.
The bagels too much cream cheese. Maybe I'm not New
York enough.
Speaker 2 (30:21):
You're not like that. I guess. Sorry, I don't know.
Shame me, please curse me.
Speaker 1 (30:25):
Uh but uh, I'd say a food, Yeah, a food,
D traffic and s culture.
Speaker 4 (30:32):
Yeah, s culture for sure. Where do you claim to
be from?
Speaker 1 (30:36):
I claim I claim to be from Nashville, but Birmingham
is like almost the city that kind of built me,
you know, cause like a lot of my years that
were you know, the growing up years, like when I
like like my middle school, I never to the high school,
but like my middle school and like elementary school years
like second to through eighth grade was Birmingham, and then
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first through first or I mean my first year on
the planet through first grade, and then now I have
been Tennessee, so I'd say I'm from Tennessee, but like
Birmingham was, like I grew up in Birmingham. I don't
know how to make that make sense.
Speaker 2 (31:14):
Yeah, I know it didn't at all. Okay, yeah, you know,
I'll elaborate, like I got the numbers. I played it out.
It's basically a sandwich.
Speaker 3 (31:20):
Yeah, exactly the Nashville We got the national sandwich Nashville
to meat Birmingham and you're back on with the bread.
Speaker 2 (31:25):
Perfect. That's I mean, literally a perfect way to put it.
Speaker 4 (31:28):
Yeah.
Speaker 2 (31:28):
Do you ever meet other fifteen year olds?
Speaker 3 (31:29):
And then I'm sure you do, but again, your business
isn't around fifteen year olds?
Speaker 2 (31:34):
No, definitely not, but maybe it shows.
Speaker 3 (31:36):
And do you feel like you're a lot older than them?
Speaker 2 (31:38):
Like young? Like what is your cause? Again?
Speaker 3 (31:40):
You seem a lot older and you've you've achieved a
lot older. How do you feel when you're with other
fifteen or sixteen year old.
Speaker 1 (31:47):
I try to not when I'm with like my buddies
and stuff, I try to let all of my you know,
business mind just leave, just so I could be a kid.
You know.
Speaker 4 (31:58):
Do you have fifteen year old friends here?
Speaker 2 (31:59):
Yes? Of course, of course, Like I have friends liked
you're talking about golf and watches.
Speaker 1 (32:03):
I know, I know, I know true, But I go
golfing with them. You know, I brought them, you know,
the forty year old knowledge has been passing me and
then I'm passing it down to them, you know, that
kind of stuff.
Speaker 2 (32:13):
But I try to let it go, you know, when.
Speaker 1 (32:15):
I'm with them, so I don't like I'm not just miserable,
like what are you guys talking about the whole time?
You know, like if I just let it go and
let myself be a kid, I feel like that's.
Speaker 2 (32:23):
When it's more enjoyable. Do they let you be normal? Yes,
of course, of course. You know, Like when I'm around them,
they don't.
Speaker 1 (32:28):
They treat me just like Maddix, which is that'd be
the biggest blessing. And you know, like I'm a lot
of them. Is my family like a lot like North.
I have like a lot of cousins that I like
to hang out with, like Alex, my my cousin, Alex,
he's the best at it.
Speaker 2 (32:42):
He like, I have a lot of yes men.
Speaker 1 (32:43):
I have a lot of people around me that'll just
say yes Maddix you know, all the time, which is great.
But Alex is the guy that'll be like, no, what
are you talking about? I'll beat you up like that
type of guy.
Speaker 2 (32:53):
I don't know.
Speaker 1 (32:53):
He's just true, exactly true, true Southern cousin. I'm super
thankful for him because he keeps me grounded, and that's
something that you really, really really need. And that's why
I like hanging out with my buddies, because they don't
treat me like Maddox Fast and the Entity. They kind
of just treat me just like their buddy Maddix, which
is cool with me.
Speaker 2 (33:10):
Give me a real pinch me moment.
Speaker 1 (33:12):
Oh great, good question. Truthfully, I mean, it's not even
that hard for me. The Grand Ole Opry debut was insane,
and I grew up in like theater and all this
kind of stuff, and I would I've never really got
nervous or like stage fright or anything like that. I like,
I would get nervous, of course, I get excited, you know,
more excited than nervous. And I never really you know,
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folded or anything under the pressure or anything like that.
But I've never been in my entire life more nervous
than my second time on the Grand Ole Opry. The
first time, I was just okay, you know, ready to go.
But the second time, you know, they invited me back.
You know, I have to make an even better impression
here because they invited me back, you know.
Speaker 3 (33:54):
What'd you think about your Did you have fun here
at the first time?
Speaker 2 (33:56):
Oh? Absolutely, because I did not have fun the first time.
Speaker 3 (33:58):
I played it really well because I was like, I
don't want to screw this up.
Speaker 2 (34:01):
No, true, true, Drew.
Speaker 3 (34:02):
And there's like a cake and you got to sign yeah,
and it's like you're in the first time a room
and everything is like an experience. Yeah, And so I
didn't really have it was it meant something to me, absolutely,
but I didn't have fun because I just didn't want
to mess it up.
Speaker 2 (34:19):
Okay.
Speaker 3 (34:19):
I felt like the second time, I actually looked in
people's faces, like I could actually take in the stage,
take in the crowd. There wasn't it wasn't a big deal.
I just got went to my room. I went to
the comedy room. They were like, you're in rooms you know, sixteen?
Speaker 2 (34:32):
Yeah, have had it. Yeah. I enjoyed. Treated you like
like almost like a local. Yeah.
Speaker 1 (34:36):
Yeah, I enjoyed the second time. That's a great way
to put it. I mean I kind of agree with that.
You know, I didn't necessarily. I definitely had fun while
I was up there on stage, but kind of like
you said, you were just like, holy cow, I don't
want to mess this up. You know, the great o
Lobrary just invited a fifteen year old to play.
Speaker 3 (34:51):
Fifteen but you yes, yeah, yeah, maybe Lobry just invited
a fifteen year old.
Speaker 2 (34:56):
Yeah, me confused, But dude, I was, Oh my goodness,
I was.
Speaker 1 (35:01):
I was so nervous. But you know, luckily, I think
I pulled through. I think I handled myself as well
as I could and I think so too.
Speaker 2 (35:09):
Yeah, thank you. I appreciate that.
Speaker 1 (35:10):
I definitely tried, And after I heard it back, I
was like, oh, no, I talked too much. But you know,
I mean, no one's gonna be harder on in yourself
than yourself.
Speaker 4 (35:18):
Do you listen back to everything?
Speaker 1 (35:20):
I listened back on that because I wanted to see,
like if I was just listening as a fan, like
what it would sound like.
Speaker 2 (35:27):
And I think it did fine.
Speaker 1 (35:28):
You know, you could definitely tell my voice a little shaky,
of course, but you know I'm kidding. Yeah, no, seriously,
I mixed with puberty nervousness, and you know that that's
a good mix, you know, I mean, that's gonna that's
gonna shake your voice up.
Speaker 2 (35:41):
A little bit.
Speaker 1 (35:41):
But you're doing a lot of shows, man, Yeah, most definitely.
I mean for me, performing is my favorite part. So
the tours and stuff like that, I mean that doesn't
I mean, I have the best time.
Speaker 3 (35:53):
You know, all all the shows coming up on the
you know, the live worldwide tour.
Speaker 2 (35:58):
Yeah, it's a lot of shows. It's really cool. It's
a lot of shows.
Speaker 3 (36:01):
I mean, you do like rock star tory, meaning like
country artists for the most part, they go away on
Friday Saturday and they come back, come back. There's a
lot of times here where you're gone three, four, five, six,
like eleven twelve days at a time. Oh yeah, oh yeah,
you're basically good Charlotte, you know.
Speaker 1 (36:16):
Oh yeah, absolutely, I do know good Charlotte. I god
know you know Stained. Yeah, it's been a while, yeah, exactly.
So the lead singer of Stained actually bought his childhood home.
Aaron Lewis lives in my dad's childhood home. Oh now, now,
right now, just recently, he lives in my dad's hildow.
Speaker 3 (36:33):
You can talk at you're good where in the northeast
or here in town?
Speaker 2 (36:39):
Okay? Oh so yeah, yeah, yeah, I got it. So
he bought the house here Robertson County, got it?
Speaker 3 (36:50):
Oh yeah, they they did my face as any last year.
Speaker 2 (36:54):
You got it before me.
Speaker 1 (36:55):
The guy at fourteen. I know that's where we're from.
The people that run that, like their son works with me.
He's my merch guy. He's one of my merch guys.
Speaker 2 (37:04):
Yeah, dang, I followed you. Yeah, he followed me up.
Speaker 1 (37:07):
Dude, dude, someone Hey, can I actually tell him something funny?
Speaker 2 (37:11):
Yeah? Please?
Speaker 1 (37:12):
Someone came to the punkin Patch this year and they
want they thought it was me. They were and they
were like, who's this? It's this Bobby guy.
Speaker 2 (37:22):
Who's this weirdo?
Speaker 1 (37:23):
This?
Speaker 2 (37:23):
I hate to tell you that. I hate to tell
you that.
Speaker 3 (37:25):
But I've heard words about me even today, So that's yeah. Uh, well,
congratulations man, Like, I'm super pumped for you.
Speaker 2 (37:31):
I appreciate it. I love it. Your family's so tight.
Speaker 3 (37:34):
I figured like watching you and your dad perform absolutely
together and knowing you guys a story.
Speaker 4 (37:39):
Like that's super cool.
Speaker 2 (37:40):
Thank you. Yeah, appreciate it. And are you playing any pickleball?
Speaker 1 (37:43):
Doll?
Speaker 2 (37:43):
Do you play? I play pickleball? Am I gonna say
I'm the best pickball?
Speaker 1 (37:47):
Definitely not, but I definitely do play, and I do
like playing. It's like it's a sport. That's not golf.
Still active, but it's not like basketball. Like I grew
up playing basketball. That was what I wanted to do
for as long as I could. You get like hurt, Yeah,
I got hurt my right knee, and a lot of
people were like, dude, I had the same disease. I
played through it. I'm telling you, dog, I couldn't play
(38:08):
through it. I had like the worst case you could
possibly imagine of this Ozgod Slaughter's disease.
Speaker 2 (38:14):
And I could not play diase.
Speaker 1 (38:16):
It's like this growth plate under your kneecap and it
was like poking out and if I hit it on
like if I literally just like touched it like this
at the time on the ground like hurting, like worst
pain I've ever felt in my life. And I couldn't
run jump stop and I just I was I had
a really quick first step. I was a really like
quick guard, especially you know for my stature, right, I
(38:40):
was a really quick guard and that's what got me open.
I was a good shooter, and I just couldn't I
couldn't bend, I couldn't have that first step, and I
just it just went. I went from like a like
an a basketball player, Yes, No, I wasn't that. I
wasn't there like I went. All right, So the year
before my I got diagnosed, I was averaging thirty five
points a game. No way, I swear I was averaging
(39:03):
thirty five points a game with the other players for
my school team. For my school team, you wereravaging thirty
five points a game. And then the year after I
probably went to like, what eleven.
Speaker 2 (39:12):
Did you pass anybody the ball? Dude?
Speaker 1 (39:14):
I mean, I'm not getting into this shit. I'm not
getting in this with you, Bobby. I'm not getting into that.
I've been accused of ball already entired no assists. I
passed the ball forty times in the game. I scored
forty five points. Forty times I passed the ball. You
know how many times I had? You know how mean assists?
Speaker 2 (39:32):
I had? Two? I know, I believe it. I'm telling
you I'm a dimer.
Speaker 1 (39:36):
Jason Williams is my favorite player of all time, and
I'm I'm doing fancy passing. I'm giving them the ball
and they're just not doing anything.
Speaker 2 (39:44):
So it's on them that you don't have assists. Yes, yes,
I'm passing them. There's footage four years ago.
Speaker 1 (39:50):
I'm twelve years old, averaging thirty five points a game,
and I'm diming the ball off and they're not doing
nothing with it.
Speaker 2 (39:56):
Much love to anyone on my team. I love you guys.
He tried, Yeah, he tried something, please do.
Speaker 1 (40:02):
I was there every game. I missed one game because
I wanted to the beach points. My team scored one point.
They made a free throw. Wait when I wasn't gone.
And we lost one game that year.
Speaker 2 (40:14):
That was when you were gone. It was the only
game I lost.
Speaker 4 (40:17):
Well, you were.
Speaker 3 (40:18):
Accounting for all the points of the team. Yes, they
were like, we get to shoot. What the heck did
you do with this?
Speaker 2 (40:23):
Dude? But I know a practice. They're all they're all stunned.
Speaker 4 (40:27):
Yeah, you put the ball in the whole.
Speaker 2 (40:29):
They didn't know what to do. It was like exactly,
and I'm sorry. I love you guys. We just played defense.
Speaker 4 (40:35):
Maddicks usually scores all the points. I get it, they
get the ball.
Speaker 2 (40:38):
It's just like a foreign language. All right, Maddicks. Good
to see you, buddy. I hope everybody comes out. You're
all over You're all over the world.
Speaker 4 (40:46):
That's really cool to see.
Speaker 3 (40:48):
I'm excited for you to go to other countries and
eat food. You want to eat real food. Man, you're
gonna go places like you're gonna go to like London.
Speaker 2 (40:55):
Dude, I heard London's pretty solid.
Speaker 3 (40:57):
London's cool because the buildings are from like twelve hundred,
Like we have nothing here, and dude, we have the
founding father we have the buildings are thousands of years
old and still way cooler.
Speaker 4 (41:08):
It's wild. Yeahs cool. Uh.
Speaker 2 (41:10):
They don't really have skyscrapers though, which is weird.
Speaker 1 (41:12):
You know, I wouldn't expect that because they're Oh they're
they're unk, They're much country. I feel like UK is
just like the unk country. Never like that, Like you're
the unk and you're UK and I'm the USA if
that makes sense. You know, I'm the young country. You're
the unk country.
Speaker 4 (41:27):
I'm back to being insulted again.
Speaker 1 (41:30):
Uh.
Speaker 3 (41:30):
Really good to spend some time with you. Congratulations and
all your success. Absolutely you guys. Following on Instagram Maddox
bats and uh I'm pumped. I'm pumped to Uh are
you playing Nashville at all?
Speaker 2 (41:40):
You are? Right? You have?
Speaker 1 (41:41):
Yeah?
Speaker 4 (41:41):
We play Pinnacle in May.
Speaker 2 (41:43):
Yeah in May. Yeah, it's gonna be fun.
Speaker 4 (41:44):
All right, there he is Thank you guy so much.
Speaker 5 (41:47):
Thanks for listening to a Bobby Cast production.
Host
Bobby Bones
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